Have you ever imagined playing a character on your favorite soap and going toe-to-to with the likes of Victor Newman, Erica Kane or Brooke Logan? Have you imagined falling in love with, or having a torrid affair, with a character like Shawn Christian's Daniel Jonas (wink wink Nicki), Brandon Beemer's Owen Knight, Van Hansis' Luke Snyder, Kelly Monaco's Sam McCall or Kirsten Storms Maxie Jones?

Here's something fun to do on a Friday while you are waiting for the clock to count down to the weekend.

Determine what your soap charater's name would be by combining your middle name with the name of the street you grew up on. Then give a brief description of what type of character he or she would be and who you'd like to see them paired with and who would you like to see be their biggest rival. Would she be a vixen or a good girl? Would he be a corporate shark or a hunky detective?  Let your imagination be your inspiration.

On today's episode Daytime Confidential begins the first of eight episodes focusing on The Top 10 Ways to Improve Your Favorite Soaps.

Join Luke, Mike and Jamey as the discuss and debate The Top 10 Ways to Improve The Bold and the Beautiful.

In each of The Top 10 Ways to Improve Your Favorite Soaps the Daytime Confidential gang will discuss some of the common issues facing the soaps as well as some of the unique problems facing each show.

This along with your comments on the blog and on the Daytime Confidential Comment Line makes for an entertaining discussion on the ills facing The Bold and the Beautiful and its fans.

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On today's CBS and Days of Our Lives' Daytime Confidential episode Luke, Mike and Nicki discuss the latest on As the World Turns, The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of our Lives, Guiding Light and The Young and the Restless including...

Lily Snyder Guns It: Has As the World Turns' Lily Snyder lost it as she guns her car's engine to run down Carly? Can the writers get away with this happening to the character since Martha Bryne isn't in the role?

Blatantly Using Owen: Felicia getting her hooks into Owen Knight and she isn't the only one who wants a piece of him, so does Daytime Confidential's Nicki. Speaking of psychos, what's it going to take for Bridget to lose it and go crazy?

Cat Fights: Days of our Lives' Sami, Chloe and Nicole highly anticipated cat fight happened this last week and it didn't last long enough. What has happened to knock-down-drag-out cat fights?

Ava's Out: Michelle Ray Smith is out as Ava on Guiding Light and the Daytime Confidential gang discusses where the show goes from here. Mike has some definite opinions on Cyrus' brother.

Raya Meddine Let Go: Word has it that Raya Meddine has been let go from The Young and the Restless and we're discussing which character would have been a better rival of Nikki for Victor's affection.

All this and much more on today's CBS and Days of our Lives show.

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Beemer, Bradon Beemer. That's right folks, Brandon Beemer is back on daytime but this time he's a bit more "bold" and a little less "Brady."

Beemer debuted his new character Owen Knight on The Bold and the Beautiful this past week and I thought I'd ask what everyone is thinking of the character so far? Where would you like to see his character go? Do you want him to be a small time blackmailer like he seems so far or would you prefer he have a bigger scheme up his sleeve?